Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tourists, especially since the war, I am told, that fairly reek with bland self-righteousness and superiority. The people on the Continent are foreigners, to be shouted at and suspected and treated with high-handedness lest they presume too much; and, not unnaturally, the "foreigners" resent that attitude and react to it. This has nothing to do with the Olympic Games, but I cannot go past this point without saying that there were times in Paris and elsewhere this summer when I was actually ashamed of being an American!. And I have felt many times, too that no American should...
...secretary of the navy and as president proves that; but he did not believe in incurring the jealousy and fear of Japan. Roosevelt always had a strong respect for Japanese grit and strength. He would have been the last to propose a showy demonstration which cannot fail to react against the pro-American party in Japan, which, with little cooperation from this side of the Pacific, is striving to maintain the entente cordiale...
...possibilities were plain. It would react to the disadvantage of the Republican candidate, because Republican campaign funds are always the largest. But the Republicans had no love to waste upon Mr. Coolidge. On the other hand?if he should happen to be tne Democratic nominee?it would probably also react on Mr. McAdoo, who has conducted an elaborate pre-conventlon campaign that must have cost a "mint" of money, not to mention promises of patronage. As for Senator La Follette, if he becomes a third party candidate, the investigation will work entirely to his advantage: he will not have...
Epicures of musical comedy can react to Kid Boots, Poppy, Mary Jane McKane, Music Box Revue, Runnin' Wild, Andre Chariot's Revue, Lollipop...
...play must have a story, and human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play...